From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D46333 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:24:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id t61so3923271wes.30 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ryo9cXqjFHznDYInA8VbC5NiJANGzR0XhCwLeKG9jEo=; b=XMlo5+nzus6s1XZWNA3YboFOEYRBeUA+0z80bEjtoAsEBCEdNK3dc5lyLk5FbDgaot G7mI3TsdQu3bq8/Y2VvC7d+94ReADTX6ahyqb1l2PqgErEV+0MeDLLLO80GxcpxmHr6f jbczo/YfMygQMLAa7frbxShqOu3e0KTG0HkCmFdMKI9/ivQg1EfJkWoFB7tNTT+AcCWt U/G0YumduIneHzwy1fbjPLLFs0jGwNYR7ohSOmwA/GCUt9A4MKBEISh7cAZOCie3/kxl 4oxNT5BBgMyW2FXaA75KuutnOtmLYvjRZyAFxhSulHh97yBnlg5QaOILhPohTjiSm7iU fqIw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnDq2syjjQX/4vPoeJ86LapPLt7zc3M/BzTbsZB60vRJJEYdKUhT3j5g1x/XWccRxW++4Zc X-Received: by 10.194.216.68 with SMTP id oo4mr13406710wjc.79.1394141183358; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturne.dev.6wind.com ([2a01:e35:8a8e:1b70:226:b9ff:fec7:e133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hy8sm22947521wjb.2.2014.03.06.13.26.21 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:26:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5318E7FD.9040807@6wind.com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:26:21 +0100 From: Vincent JARDIN Organization: www.6wind.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@dpdk.org References: <20140306212515.GA9390@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> In-Reply-To: <20140306212515.GA9390@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] hardware neutral driver for DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:24:55 -0000 librte_pmd_pcap http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_pmd_pcap On 06/03/2014 22:25, Neil Horman wrote: > Hey there- > I'm interested in doing some work on the DPDK, specifically in creating > a driver backend that interfaces to the kernel using AF_PACKET rather than a > specific card for which a UIO or VFIO driver is available in kernel. I think it > would be nice for the DPDK to have a hardware agnostic driver for development > purposes. Before I begin I wanted to make sure that something like this hasn't > already been done. I don't see any clear reference to one in the git repo, but I > figured I'd ask just to be sure there wasn't some external project in the works > already. > > Thanks & Regards > Neil >